Word Meanings - DISCLAUNDER - Book Publishers vocabulary database

To injure one's good name; to slander.

Related words: (words related to DISCLAUNDER)

• SLANDEROUS
  1. Given or disposed to slander; uttering slander. "Slanderous tongue." Shak. 2. Embodying or containing slander; calumnious; as, slanderous words, speeches, or reports. -- Slan"der*ous*ly, adv. -- Slan"der*ous*ness, n.
• SLANDER
  Formerly, defamation generally, whether oral or written; in modern usage, defamation by words spoken; utterance of false, malicious, and defamatory words, tending to the damage and derogation of another; calumny. See the Note under Defamation.
• INJURE
  To do harm to; to impair the excellence and value of; to hurt; to damage; -- used in a variety of senses; as: To hurt or wound, as the person; to impair soundness, as of health. To damage or lessen the value of, as goods or estate. To slander,
• SLANDERER
  One who slanders; a defamer; a calumniator. Jer. Taylor.
• INJURER
  One who injures or wrongs.
• ISLANDER
  An inhabitant of an island.
• DISSLANDER
  To slander. Legend of Dido.
• DISSLANDEROUS
  Slanderous.